CHAPTER XIX.

SuTA said :—-I will now describe the Praneshwara* rite ol
Garuda narrated by Shiva.

I shall first describe the places where a person, bitten by
a serpent, does not survive, viz., funeral pyre, ant-hill, well, and
the cavity of a tree. The person, three lines on whose limbs,
are hidden, does not live. [A man dies if -he is bitten] in
the sixth day of the fort-night, when the sun is in the jons-
tellation Cancer, when it is in the Aries, when it is with the
asterisin Mula or when it is in the Maghaf or AshleshaJ
[A man dies when he is bitten] on the sides, on the loins, on
the throat, on the joints or the temple, ears or belly. The
Dandin (hermit), a person holding weapons, a mendicant
and a naked person are the emissaries of Death.§ If a person
is bitten on the mouth, arms, neck, and on the back, he does
not survive.

Every day the sun, first of all, lords, for half a Yama,||
over all the serpents. Then with six revolutions the six
planets lord over them. In the night with five revolutions
the five planets lord over them. The sun is the presiding
star of Sesha, the moon of Phani, Mars of Takshaka, Jupiter
of Karkotyna, Venus of Padma and Mahapadma, Saturn of
Shankha, and Rahu of Kuluka and Ahi. Jupiter is the Death
itself in both days and nights. I Saturn is Death in the day and

* It perhaps refers to the rite for counteracting the evil effects of the
poison.

f The ninth Nakshatra or lunar mansion containing five stars. '

% The tenth lunar mansion containing five stars.

§ The meaning is that if these persons are sent for calling a phy
sician the patient dies.

|| Eighth part of a day. A watch of three hours.

U If a person is bitten on Thursdays he never survives under any
circumstances.